Friday, May 2, 2014

The beginning of the Black Cube, and the end of Forté

"The
security cable that was attached to his spacesuit was always a problem.
Philip Forté hated it. Every time that he went out into Space, he first
had to twist like a contortionist in order to reach the buckle on his
back, get hold of the little chrome latch hanging at the end of the
cable and clip it in firmly to make sure that it couldn’t detach. And
then to have to tighten the locknut with stiff gloves,he needed even
greater patience and skill! However,that is not what was really annoying
Philip at that particular moment, the cable having been successfully
secured several minutes earlier.The fundamental problem was quite
different: the steel cable was far too short for his liking: he always
ended up with his feet tangled, and most importantly, he could not
spacewalk freely in the weightlessness and go everywhere he wanted to!
He had gone out into Space so many times in his life that he was
confident of being safe anywhere, even without this very annoying
security device.And although he was aware of the dangers, he would have
loved to jump into the void and touch the stars!"Beginning of the book La Tour de l’Espace - project Black Cube by Simon Mesnard. Thanks to RKT for the translation!

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The Black Cube is a collection of sci-fi (or sci-fi fantasy) projects based on a mythology written by Simon Mesnard, talking of the discovery of mysterious Cubes, at different times and in different places.